The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-07-09

py@The CITIZEN, with latest Associa.
ted Press Dispatches will be found
regularly at all hotels and news-stands
in the city. When the supply may be
exhausted at those places, call at the
Office.
Senator Vance was in the city yester-
day.
Judge F. C. Fisher of Swain Inferior
Court is in the city.
The increase in the number of visitors
is very perceptible on the streets.
Mr.. Wilson, one of the most promin-
ent merchants of Charleston, S. C., with
his family, are at Battery Park.
Messrs. Reynolds & Baird will deliver
dry goods as we'll as groceries to any
point desiIed within the corporate limits
of Asheville.
Mr.. Harman, formerly of the Waynes-
vile News, now of the Greensboro
Tobacco Journal, is proposing to move
that paper to Danville.
Telegraphic service was interrupted
last night on both sides of us, and no
night dispatches were received. This
will account for the limited quantity of
telegraphic matter in this issue.
We omitted to mention that the appli-
cation made / F Pink Aiken, complicated
in the killing of Foreman, for a writ of
habeas aorpusy.o have been heard on
Wednesday, was withdrawn by the ap-
plicant.
Hon. R. B. Vance reached his home,
five miles below Asheville, on Sunday
evening, for a brief visit among his
friends. He was in the city Yesterday,
the picture of good health and exuberant
spirits.
Splendid reports come from the Ashe
vile White Sulphur Springs Agood COM
pany has assembled, and others, who have
engaged rooms, are looked for daily. The
accommodations are spoken of in the
highest terms, to say nothing of the
ma1y Comtorf3 afforded.
The Black Mountain Hotel is now in
full operation for>the summer, and we
are pleased to learn that its prospects are
good for fair share of the summer trav-
Ell. The Office is under the management
of Mr. Koontz and the culinary depart
ment 1nder Mr.. Louis Lebarbe-a qua
rantee of the manner in which these de-
partnent5 will be managed.
The attention of our citizens is direct
ed to the proposition of the Super:nten-
dent of the AsheVille Gas and Light Co.
They will save money by acting upon
his suggestion. Every resident of the
city will want gas, for its safety if for
nothing else, and now is the time to pre-
pare for if. The company will be ready
to supply it before ali Of our citizens are
ready to receive it. Let the work of
preparation be begun at once.
Mr.. W. NJ. Hazard. of Georgetown, S.
c., has reached his summer home, Beau
mont, in this city. A portion of his fam
lily is with him, Mrs. Hazard and other
members being in Washington. visiting
her brother, Hon. w. L. Trenholm,
c comptroller of the Treasury.
Mr.. Hazard informs US that crops IN
his section of, and indeed throughout,
the Palmetto State are extraordinarily
good and promising, and the people are
very hopeful and cheerful.
Gas pipes are being laid, the wires for
the incandescentlights are being stretch
ed, the water pipes are already convey
ing water through course often miles,
the electric light nightly dazzles us with
its splendore, the telegraph and tele-
phone wires thread every street, the
whistles of the engines on three different
roads ring out the noisy note of progress
lis not all this enough to suggest that
AsheVille is speeding along at healthy
rate on the road to destiny? And then
the street railroad is not so far remote.